Hi Chris, Shuffle playback uses whatever group you're in at the time you turn it on as its basis for shuffling. So in iTunes on your Mac, if you select your Music playlist in the sources table, turn on the file browser (Command-B), select a genre or artist, and press the "Do Not Shuffle" button (which describes the current setting) to turn on shuffling (where this becomes the "Shuffle" button), then start playing music (either by pressing the "Play" button or by starting from any of the tracks in the resulting songs table and pressing enter), iTunes will shuffle through all the songs in the songs table, playing each exactly once. If you select a playlist, turn shuffle play on, and start playing from that playlist, then iTunes will only play tracks from that playlist (and will leave out any tracks where you have checked the box for "Skip when shuffling" on the Options pane if you edited the track with "Get Info" (Command-I)). If you want iTunes to continuously shuffle through the playlist, press the "No Repeat" button (which describes current setting) to turn on repeat play (this now becomes the "Repeat All Songs" button) and start playing. Chances are, you turned on shuffle play from your music playlist and never turned it off, which is why you're getting a mixture of Brahms and Eminem.
On your Nano or iPhone, navigate to your playlist and then turn on the setting to shuffle songs before you start playing your playlist. Remember that these iPod/iPhone settings "stick". If you set your iPod or iPhone to shuffle songs, either from the Settings menu or while playing from a playlist, when you next go to play an Album you'll hear the tracks play in shuffled rather than sequential order. The shuffled setting (on the song level) applies to whatever group of music you're in, and only exempts tracks that were marked as "Do not shuffle" (such as Audiobook tracks, or any tracks where you checked this setting if you edited the Options tab in iTunes.) Cheers, Esther On Aug 24, 2009, Chris Hofstader wrote: > > My quejstion is how to keep "shuffle" from grabbing items outside the > current playlist? This happens on my MacBook, iMac 24, Nano and > iPhone whether I hit the button or shake the handheld devices. Thus, > I jumped from a movement in Brahms Fourth to a song by Eminem an > experience that nearly knocked me out of my chair. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
